I do admit, it took us at Single Dude Travel a long time before we sent our our fist scout team to China, but I finally packed off for a couple months in China and have had very promising results to report so far. First I need to disclaim that this article only refers to Shuzhou, China. Suzhou is a city of about 8,, about 2 hours drive from Shanghai. Suzhou, China is a very good single dude travel destination.
Suzhou is a large industrial city that really caters to foreigners largely due to the fact that there are many foreign businessmen living here. Pretty much everything I expected from China was wrong, at least in Suzhou. First of all, the people are extremely friendly and polite — especially to foreigners. If you can live like a king in Eastern Europe on a small budget you can live like a god in China.
I can only imagine what the prices might be like out in the countryside. Suzhou is absolutely jam packed with nice restaurants, bars and clubs. There are places of all types that cater to locals and others that cater to foreigners. Both are fun. The foreigner bars and clubs are jam packed with them. Be sure to also check out bar street Shi Qian Jie a long street that has nothing but bars.
About half are just regular bars catering to foreigners and the other half are hooker bars. Chinese girls are great, very feminine and some are absolutely drop dead gorgeous. I was pleasantly surprised to find that they are no where near as conservative as I was expecting. In fact a lot of the hot little Chinese chicks that frequent the clubs dress surprisingly similar to Eastern European chicks read: tight skimpy clothes and high heels. German is actually a language worth knowing in China there since many Japanese and Chinese speak it to some degree.
After WW2 there was still a strong alliance and German is actually the language for many kinds of engineering which the Asians are particularly strong in. They are Commies, a bit tough and they attempt to be domineering. Major issue: Xenophobia. They think we are from Neptune or something so they need time to get comfortable with guys like us.
